Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’

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Go For the Burn with the Xeoos Twinfire Wood Stove

Finding it difficult to shake the chill of winter? Wondering when our cantankerous climate might settle down and begin to show some consistency? Well, you and about six billion other people.

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See the Future of Solid Surfaces with HI-MACS by LG Hausys

What does the natural mineral aluminum hydroxide, otherwise known as ATH, have to do with the future of surface treatments in architecture or design? Perhaps everything, as it turns out.

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The Tegola and Petra Lamps by Studio Klass for Pimar

When I first glimpsed Tegola—the innovative desk/table lamp by Studio Klass for Pimar—something about it struck me as vaguely familiar, vaguely suggestive of some socio-historico-cultural icon.

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The Sol Task Chair by Safco

Why is Safco’s sleek and smart new task chair called Sol? Clearly because it suggests sunnier days ahead, not only in respect of greater bodily ease at the workplace, but also in light of less strain on our dwindling resources, for Safco’s Sol is “comprised of components that were selected to maximize use of recycled materials.”